Art, literature & history
The Sower
1621
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- etching
- Dimensions
- plate: 8.7 x 12.5 cm (3 7/16 x 4 15/16 in.) overall: 9.6 x 13.3 cm (3 3/4 x 5 1/4 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1950.1.31
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Willem Buytewech. The Sower. Willem Buytewech; This file was donated to Wikimedia Commons as part of a project by the National Gallery of Art . Please see the Gallery's Open Access Policy .. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Willem_Buytewech,_The_Sower,_1621,_NGA_37067.jpg. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
The Sower — Willem Buytewech. 1621.
Medium: etching.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): plate: 8.7 x 12.5 cm (3 7/16 x 4 15/16 in.) overall: 9.6 x 13.3 cm (3 3/4 x 5 1/4 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 1950.1.31. Rosenwald Collection.
Museum holding does not establish current display.
Source: National Gallery of Art, CC0 collection metadata, retrieved 9 September 2026.
Location checked Sep 9, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.